Ealing Council are looking for your feedback on their plans for Live West Ealing by 31 March 2024. These planned improvements to West Ealing make streets safer, greener and more attractive. Therefore this should encourage more to walk, cycle and use public transport.
Be it walking to school, cycling to work, or other everyday journeys you make to get from place to place, rather than solely for leisure or fitness, active travel can offer a convenient, accessible and affordable way to move more. By swapping car journeys for an active travel one saves greenhouse gas emissions, helps stop climate change, reduces pollution and helps make our streets safer places to be.
Responding to Live West Ealing consultation
Currently proposals consultation is open until 31 March 2024 and started on Monday 19 February. The proposed improvements can be read here. Give your feedback by visiting the Current Engagement page here and complete their survey.
Exhibition boards will be on display at the West Ealing Library and outside on the railings at Dean Gardens during the engagement period. Collect a paper survey or comment card from West Ealing Library and leave these in the comment box.
West Ealing Library ran drop in sessions on Saturday 16 March from 11am – 2pm. Also an accessibility workshop at West Ealing Library on Monday 4 March from 1pm-4pm. If you have specific accessibility needs, this event will be a chance to review, comment on, and discuss proposals. Please email LiveWestEaling@ealing.gov.uk if you would like to attend.
To keep up to date on the Live West Ealing programme, please email LiveWestEaling@ealing.gov.uk
Elthorne Park Road and Leighton Road Residents’ Association statement on the project is:
“The original focus was to create a safer, healthier neighbourhood around West Ealing by targeting roads well-known for their longstanding traffic issues that impede upon active travel (including Leighton, Coldershaw and Grovesnor Roads). We are concerned these roads have been silently dropped from the new, watered-down plans that lack the ambition to address many of the real problems to encourage more walking and cycling. Particularly as changes to the Lido junction are liable to further compound traffic on these residential streets.”
What is Live West Ealing?
Ealing Council successfully bid for TfL’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme. This programme funds projects that will help make streets more attractive, healthy and safe. Together with TfL we are investing up to £8.6 million in West Ealing. Transport for London (TfL) and Ealing Council are funding Live West Ealing improvements. West Ealing is one of five neighbourhoods to have received this funding as part of TfL’s Liveable Neighbourhood programme to promote more attractive, accessible and friendly public spaces across the capital. More information about the West Ealing Liveable Neighbourhoods original proposals are on the Ealing Council website here.
The West Ealing Liveable Neighbourhoods have been shaped by feedback from the local community in 2018 and 2019. However, in 2020 the programme was paused because of Covid-19. Since then plans have developed further and now moved to engagement with the local community. Please visit the Current Engagement page for more information here.
The proposals for the West Ealing Liveable Neighbourhood also fit with the Ealing Council Travel in Ealing Charter that aims to ensure that the decision-making processes for future transport proposals enable participation by as many people as possible from all ages, backgrounds and circumstances.
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